https://twitter.com/iNeal/status/1420221303840071682?s=19
https://nitter.snopyta.org/iNeal/status/1420221303840071682?s=19
I was going to ask how was he trashing leftists? Because leftists disappointed with the movement trash leftists all the time. Adam Curtis, for example.
Kaczynski's not a leftist tho.
He's a straight up reactionary, or at least he was when he wrote the manifesto.
Like, the "trashing leftists" in question isn't sectarian infighting or theoretical criticism it's shit like
The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
and
The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly.
Adam Curtis isn't left. He lacks the materialist philosophical foundation to his analysis. He may be leftist on some policy things but his understanding of history is liberal.
Apparently Curtis said he doesn't exactly know why people put him on the left, and that he's more of a neoconservative (?)
Because neoconservatism is still to the left of the current right wing political environment, the right have gone full on fascist and they will paint anyone that isn't mask off fascist as far left.
Vikki just recently did a video summarizing his manifesto, a quick one-sentence summary would be that the unabomber was a boomer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwFLsPBdqgY
Yeah he groups libs in with tankies and says its all bad authoritarianism.
Nah, he's more of a proto Neo-reactionary, subtype, weird Druid theocracy.
Clearly no. Dude wasn't on our team, folks. Dude was misogynistic and racist as all hell and return to Monke is stupid. I will happily do sectarianism against anprim. You can just go die of dysentery in the woods right now, the material conditions are there. No one will stop you
It can't just keep going even if the software update failed? Like roll back to a previous install? What a piece of shit.
The Information Revolution, and its consequences, have been a disaster for the human race.
Imagine all the awesome things we could do with this technology if we lived under socialism
Literally having moon colonies because we're no longer spending trillions to uphold capitalist interests.
I can't even comprehend it tbh. Even the little things... well, especially the little things. Imagine social media that wasn't designed to rot the minds of its users
imagine an economy planned with the vast computing resources currently being used to track everyone's online behavior and sell you baby wipes
Imagine public libraries (incl. digital) with full free access to every book, every patent, every scientific article. Imagine being able to freely download and use the most current version of every piece of software for any application as well as access to learning resources.
I'm familiar and use it all the time.
PS how come we have no pirate emojis?
:sankara-salute: Glad you're fighting the good fight, comrade. Also yeah good point, I'd love some! I know we used to have a Stallman emote but after some of his uh interesting views got propagated I guess we got rid of it.
Just the disbanding of global militaries alone would free up more than enough money to feed everyone, house everyone, and still have enough left over for some moon/mars bases and maybe an L5 station.
Which Philip k dick book starts with the protagonist being broke and can't afford to open his smart fridge or get out the door of his smart apartment? Pkd really did see the future didn't he
every single day i grow more and more confident that we do not exist in a real place but some kind of hell "energy matrix" cause my fuckin lord dude.
so the planet is a prison, and saturn is keeping us trapped.
Hot take: if we can't have public transportation, self driving cars are the next best thing. Fuck Elon Musk but I hate driving and really don't want to do it, but because we have zero public transportation infrastructure we all pretty much have no choice.
Ice cold take. There will never be self driving cars deployed on mass scale, and expecting or depending on them to "fix" transportation is a masturbatory VC pipedream. The time and monetary costs to implement the infrastructure dwarfs the costs of any new public transit, the legislative hurdles are going to be glacial and inconsistently applied, and assuming the AI gets trained not to brake at every street lamp and these things reach retail, rides are not going to be available for anything less than a price inaccessible for 90% of people. If you think governments are slow to build new bus routes, what makes you think they're going to jump over backwards to make sure people can afford a glorified taxi?
Also - imagine the horrorshow if there was a "small" fire in an underground tunnel only designed for self driving electric cars. For "safety" - the cars might be forced powered down and doors would be force locked. And if people started breaking their windows to get out - they'd find that there's no walkaway to safety because - of course - they were supposed to stay in their cars.
And - oopsie - there's no way to get firetrucks and fire equipment to the fire. And even firemen on foot might not be able to get to it either. The small fire rages and it gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
People could get BBQed underground.
Yes, of course. Trains good. I would take buses over self-driving cars. But if we just can't have that, we should have self driving cars that don't require a license. We're not there yet, but it really shouldn't be that far off.
Self driving cars that require zero human input as a "just around the corner" solution seem to have largely been abandoned by most serious manufacturers, it's only elon who needs that kind of unrealistic marketing lie who's still making promises he can't deliver on.
edit: let us not forget the promise of self driving teslas that can do uber when you're not using them, meanwhile the teslas in the vegas loop must all have human drivers to drive on one lane roads with zero pedestrians
I want wind tunnels for long distance cycle transit. Solar or geothermal powered fans giving you a nice steady 20ish mph wind at your back in enclosed tunnels, so even non-sportos can casually make distance.
I dont want tesla fuckups making me into a Smug ICE driver, but there’s no problem with standard cars i cant fix eventually
Lmao. Surprising to see this case because in case of software update failure, other manufacturers just use the previous version of the software and you don't get a bricked car.
Does it actually not start if this happens or it just the self driving feature off
It says 'vehicle not ready to operate' which makes me think it's totally useless right now. From a legal liability standpoint, it's probably to cover the manufacturer's ass.
So if you are at a parking meter you are just fucked and have to pay the ticket?
absolutely, you think the state isn't just grinning and rubbing its hands together with the knowledge of how much it's going to get to fuck someone with a problem no fault of their own?
I miss my OZ :( Shit was my first car, did me well.
I'm on the 2k Subaru wagon gang now
Subaru wagons are nice, but I love my lancers. The commuter versions aren't as sporty, but damn are they safe cars.
The standardized rectangular head units cars used to have which you could replace with aftermarket head units.
